Shooting the Mafia
[The story] is lovingly recounted by Longinotto, a documentarian who revels in making movies about female outsiders and rebels.
Shooting the Mafia
Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. A woman whose passions led her to abandon traditional family life and become a photojournalist in the 1970s — she was the first female photographer to be employed by an Italian daily newspaper — Battaglia found herself on the front lines during one of the bloodiest chapters in Italy’s recent history. She fearlessly and artfully captured everyday Sicilian life—from weddings and funerals to the grisly murders of ordinary citizens—to tell the story of how the community she loved in her native Palermo was forced into silence by the Cosa Nostra. Weaving together Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and the now 84-year-old’s own memories, Shooting the Mafia paints a portrait of a remarkable woman whose whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Documentary,
Crime,
Women and Film,
Photography
Runtime
94
Language
Italian
Director
Kim Longinotto
Awards:
Nominee, Panorama Audience Award, Berlin International Film Festival
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ World Cinema: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Soham Gadre, Film Inquiry
The film’s greatest achievement is that it, with use of on-ground, authentic and unfiltered footage by its subject, completely demystifies our notion of organized crime and la cosa nostra developed through Hollywood films and TV. It paints them for what they really are, a terrorist group bent on ...
Played at
Royal 11.22.19 - 11.28.19
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